House prices in LLDC

Tom Copley: Could you provide the average sale price of private market homes in the LLDC in each of the last five years?

Sir Peter Hendy CBE, Chair of the LLDC: LLDC has used publicly available Land Registry Sales data to extract all private residential sales (new and second hand) for the LLDC area by year for the last five years. Please see the table below.
Year Sold
Average Sales Value
2019
£586,852
2018
£528,364
2017
£509,069
2016
£483,986
2015
£457,603

Started Homes by tenure and size

Tom Copley: Could you provide a breakdown of all homes started to date across the LLDC by tenure (private, shared ownership, London Living Rent, London Affordable Rent, social rent, etc) and number of bedrooms? Please separate London Living Rent from other intermediate products.

Sir Peter Hendy CBE, Chair of the LLDC: Please see answer to Question No: 2019/17050

London Living Wage at the LLDC (1)

Leonie Cooper: What steps are you taking to encourage employers within the LLDC area to pay their employees the London Living Wage?

Sir Peter Hendy CBE, Chair of the LLDC: LLDC takes a number of steps to encourage employers within the LLDC area to pay their employees the London Living Wage (LLW). This includes the promotion of the LLW through s106s for all developments within the red line boundary of the Mayoral Development Corporation area. In addition, LLDC sets standards by including the LLW in leases.
Within the LLDC organisation, payment of the LLW is mandated to LLDC’s workforce and the directly employed workforce of tier 1 employers at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. All LLDC venues on the Park, including the London Stadium, are LLW employers.
At the end of 2018, this commitment was extended, underpinned by the new GLA group-wide license, to achieving a standard whereby for all new contracts that the LLDC lets, the London Living Wage is paid to all workers, including those in the supply chain.

Tourism at the LLDC

Leonie Cooper: How are you promoting the LLDC to encourage domestic and international visitors to the LLDC?

Sir Peter Hendy CBE, Chair of the LLDC: LLDC undertakes dedicated marketing campaigns to promote Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park to local residents, and domestic and international visitors throughout the year. These include out of home advertising (for example, on tube, rail and bus networks), print and radio advertising, PR campaigns, and targeted ads across digital channels. In addition, LLDC encourages visitors to the Park through a range of ongoing activity, such as through social media channels, the Park website, a monthly e-newsletter, media coverage and journalist/blogger visits and a range of materials such as What’s On event leaflets. LLDC also works with partners and venue operators on and around the Park to promote the Park and its venues via their marketing and communications channels.

Employment at the LLDC

Leonie Cooper: How many local people are employed at the LLDC? Can you break this down by borough and year since 2012?

Sir Peter Hendy CBE, Chair of the LLDC: Please note that LLDC has had approximately 130-150 people working in the organisation in each year from 2012 to the present day.

BAME pay audit

Leonie Cooper: How are you working to eradicate the ethnicity pay gap at the LLDC?

Sir Peter Hendy CBE, Chair of the LLDC: LLDC has a detailed Diversity and Inclusion Action plan, updated annually, which ensures LLDC focuses its work to eradicate the gender and ethnicity pay gaps.
On a strategic level, an LLDC Board Sponsor for Diversity & Inclusion has been created, a Diversity & Inclusion steering group has been established, and all managerial and executive staff have clear objectives around Diversity & Inclusion which are monitored throughout the year.
Recruitment processes have been updated to engage a wider diversity of applicants, a ‘blind application’ process has been introduced and equality monitoring is undertaken.
For existing staff, LLDC participates in and champions the Our Time sponsorship programme as part of the GLA family, and has launched a series of Inspirational Female Leaders events. LLDC has also introduced an Agile Working approach and continues to promote Flexible Working, with over 40 per cent of the workforce operating with a formal flexible pattern.

Gender pay audit

Leonie Cooper: How are you working to eradicate the gender pay gap at the LLDC?

Sir Peter Hendy CBE, Chair of the LLDC: Please see response to Question No: 2019/17044

Support for schools

Jennette Arnold: How are you ensuring that your work with local schools benefits the most vulnerable children, including those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND)?

Sir Peter Hendy CBE, Chair of the LLDC: LLDC’s school engagement programme involves targeted work with schools which look after vulnerable children, including those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). There have been over 7,000 downloads over the last academic year of Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park learning resources, which have been developed with teachers to be inclusive and adaptable so they can be appropriately tailored for all needs including those of SEND students. In addition, focused relationship building is being undertaken with two specialist SEND schools – Stormont House and Ickburgh School. This includes, for example, working with them to ensure they can participate in curriculum challenges.
The 2019 East Education Summer School, delivered with LLDC’s East Bank partner organisations and other local partners, welcomed 353 local young people on a programme of courses across two weeks. The summer school was specifically designed with holiday hunger and broader participant reach in mind. Targeted outreach was undertaken through schools, youth groups and youth workers to ensure the opportunity reached vulnerable children, all course places were free and free healthy meals were provided.

Diversity at the LLDC

Jennette Arnold: You have set targets for a diverse LLDC workforce, including BAME people, women and people with disabilities. How did you determine these targets and what progress has been made towards achieving them?

Sir Peter Hendy CBE, Chair of the LLDC: As set out in its Diversity & Inclusion Statement, LLDC is committed to building an equitable, diverse and inclusive workforce. This statement was devised by the LLDC Diversity and Inclusion Group which works to ensure the development and delivery of LLDC’s Diversity and Inclusion agenda and is accountable to the LLDC Board, via the Executive Management Team.
The policies and strategies implemented by LLDC continue to ensure the workforce is representative of the local community and the focus of LLDC’s future efforts will be to maximise the considerable opportunities that Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park offers in the areas of education, cultural activity, employment and entrepreneurship.
LLDC continues to work towards increasing representation in all areas and the below table shows progress in achieving this over the last three years.
See attachment.

SEND inclusion at the LLDC

Jennette Arnold: Your Ten Year Plan and Five Year Strategy both contain policies to improve inclusion for Londoners with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). How is this work progressing, including but not limited to your physical accessibility programme?

Sir Peter Hendy CBE, Chair of the LLDC: LLDC is committed to ensuring Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park is an example of the best principles of accessibility and inclusive design. All LLDC venues are fully inclusive and the Park and public realm has set a new standard on inclusive design. The Park Mobility Service has helped transport 23,151 people with access needs around the Park, and 65 sighted guides have been trained. In addition, there is a nominated SEND representative on the LLDC Board and Youth Board to ensure these needs are taken into account at a strategic and operational level.
Motivate East, a five-year programme aimed at delivering the Paralympic legacy, engaged 16,662 participants, provided a range of accessible or adapted specialist equipment to local centres, trained 160 inclusive sports volunteers with 33 per cent of the activities led/co-led by people with a disability or long-term health condition.
LLDC runs a free weekly community sports programme which is designed to be accessible to all. In addition, Active East – a month long free festival of sport held in July 2019 with over 6,000 participants – provided 25 per cent dedicated all ability sessions to ensure SEND requirements were met. All other sessions were designed and delivered to be inclusive and adapted to participant needs.
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park’s volunteering programme to develop Park Champions is also fully inclusive and provides support for those that have additional requirements. 149 Park Champions have disclosed a special education need or disability and 24 of these to date have obtained Level 3 accredited training in Customer Service through a programme delivered in partnership with voluntary sector organisation The Tower Project designed to train and support those with special education needs and disabilities.

Apprenticeship diversity (4)

Fiona Twycross: Can you provide me with a breakdown of apprenticeships started in the LLDC, by borough, further broken down by level and broken down again by disability since 2012 to date?

Sir Peter Hendy CBE, Chair of the LLDC: Internal: See attachment. (Note in attachmemt PNTS mean - Prefer Not to Say.
External:
The LLDC asks all its workers across Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park to declare whether they have a disability. A low percentage do self-declare, but of those that have declared a disability, 2 per cent work with construction employers and 4 per cent work with end use employers, meaning a combined percentage of 6% of the total Park workforce have self-declared they have a disability at the point of induction.

Apprenticeship diversity (2)

Fiona Twycross: Can you provide me with a breakdown of apprenticeships started in the LLDC, by borough, further broken down by level and broken down again by gender since 2012 to date?

Sir Peter Hendy CBE, Chair of the LLDC: Internal: See attachment.
External:
Breakdown gender apprentices since 2012
Construction
End-use
Total
198
122
Women
28
37
%
14
30
Breakdown of Park based female apprentices by level and 4 borough/London
Size of sample for snapshot of analysis = 60
%
4 Borough
%
Rest of London
%
Unknown
%
60
35
58%
24
40%
1
2%
Level 2 and below
20
33%
15
25%
Level 3 and above
14
23%
9
15%
1
2%
Unknown
1
2%
0%

Apprenticeship diversity (1)

Fiona Twycross: Can you provide me with a breakdown of apprenticeships started in the LLDC, by borough, further broken down by level since 2012 to date?

Sir Peter Hendy CBE, Chair of the LLDC: Internal: See attachment.
External:
Where robust data is available, to date 45 per cent of Park apprentices reside in the four boroughs surrounding the Park (Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest). 60 per cent of park apprentices are studying for level 1 or 2 apprenticeship frameworks and 37 per cent are studying at level 3 or above.
4 borough Local
6 borough Local
Rest of London
Place of resident unknown
45%
55%
27%
19%
Level of apprenticeships on the Park
Level 2 or below
60.14%
Level 3 or above
37.46%
Unknown
2.41%
(Taken from a sample of 90% of all the apprentices created through LLDC interventions)

Apprenticeship diversity (5)

Fiona Twycross: Can you provide me with a breakdown of apprenticeships started in the LLDC, by borough, further broken down by level and broken down again by age since 2012 to date?

Sir Peter Hendy CBE, Chair of the LLDC: Internal: See attachment.
External:
We do not report an age breakdown of our apprentices however we do know that the majority of our apprentices are under 25 years of age, specifically because until the government’s recent overhaul of the apprenticeship landscape, funding for apprentices was limited to 18-24 year olds.

Apprenticeship diversity (3)

Fiona Twycross: Can you provide me with a breakdown of apprenticeships started in the LLDC, by borough, further broken down by level and broken down again by ethnicity since 2012 to date?

Sir Peter Hendy CBE, Chair of the LLDC: Internal: See attachment.
External:
To date 47 per cent of all of our apprentices have been from BAME groups, breakdown by year and sector below.
Breakdown BAME apprentices
Starts by year
Construction
End use
% BAME
2012 - 13
24
56%
2014 - 15
20
32%
2015 - 16
23
14
52%
2016 - 17
2
36
59%
2017 - 18
8
13
44%
2018 - 19
4
4
40%
2019 - 20
2
1
27%
Total number
83
68
47%
151

Planned homes by tenure and size

Tom Copley: Could you provide a breakdown of all homes planned but not started across the LLDC by tenure (private, shared ownership, London Living Rent, London Affordable Rent, social rent, etc) and number of bedrooms?

Sir Peter Hendy CBE, Chair of the LLDC: London Legacy Development Corporation monitors housing delivery on the basis of tenure and housing size mix. The definition of ‘intermediate’ includes a number of different products including shared ownership, shared equity and discounted market rent. London Living Rent was introduced as a new intermediate tenure by the Mayor of London in 2017 therefore monitoring information is only able to provide this information for 2017 onwards.
It should be noted that the table below includes all schemes with residential, including non-self-contained accommodation and therefore includes schemes where affordable housing is not required (ie schemes of 10 units or more).
Market
Social Rent/Affordable rent
Intermediate (all)
TOTAL
Of which
London Living Rent (Intermediate)
Social Rent
(S/AR)
Started/completed
11279
1563
979
13821
6
864
Not started
6469
1421
1096
8986
93
595
17748
2984
2075
22807
99
1459
The table below includes schemes permitted by Prior Approval where the bedroom sizes are not necessarily known (and have been entered as 1 beds).
1 bed
2 bed
3 bed plus
Total
Started/completed
5760
4780
3282
13821
Not started
2891
2916
3178
8986
8651
7696
6460
22807

Future housebuilding

Tom Copley: Could you provide an estimate of the number of new homes that have not yet been started or planned but are anticipated to be built in the coming years across the LLDC?

Sir Peter Hendy CBE, Chair of the LLDC: A majority of the housing delivery within the area over the course of the Local Plan period to 2036 already has some form of planning permission. In total, LLDC anticipates 33,000 homes to be built by 2036, and by the end of this year it is expected 10,200 homes will already have been completed.
The following table breaks down the anticipated delivery by source: site allocations where there are currently no extant permissions; planning permissions; and additional capacity assumed for the area as a whole. It shows that 11,782 homes are anticipated from schemes without planning permission at present.
Source
2018/19 and 2019/20
2020/21-2024/25
2025/26-2029/30
2030/31-2034/35
2035/36
Total
Site allocations
0
1611
2441
2061
890
7003
Permissions
3330
8044
3428
1495
0
16297
Additional capacity
0
1279
1859
1264
377
4779
ALL
3330
10934
7728
4820
1267
28079

Shared Ownership in LLDC

Tom Copley: Could you provide the average sale price, average share purchased, and average household income for Shared Ownership properties in the LLDC in each of the last five years?

Sir Peter Hendy CBE, Chair of the LLDC: 2017/18
2016/17
2015/16
2014/15
2013/14
Total number of homes*
49
95
196
331
44
Total number of shared ownership
48
94
194
331
42
Total number of Older Person's Shared Ownership
1
1
2
0
2
Median value of full property
£425,000
£355,000
£365,000
£385,000
£239,125
Median equity share
35
40
40
40
37.5
Median household income**
£50,000
£45,000
£46,000
£46,000
£36,193
*The total homes include both shared ownership and Older Person's Shared Ownership within the following postcodes: E15, E20, E3, and E9.
**Due to incomplete data, the median household income is based on slightly fewer properties than the number analysed for value and equity share (40 in 2017/18; 89 in 2016/17; 192 in 2015/16; 317 in 2014/15; and 40 in 2013/14)

Short term lettings in LLDC

Tom Copley: Do you have an estimate of how many properties within the LLDC are being let on short-term lettings platforms such as Airbnb?

Sir Peter Hendy CBE, Chair of the LLDC: According to the analytical firm, Airna Market Minder, across London there are c.72,000 active short-term rentals advertised through AirBnB and HomeAway. Within the LLDC area there are c.30 active rentals through AirBnB and HomeAway, the majority of which are a room within a flat. The likely reasons for relatively few short term lets within LLDC’s area is three fold:
1) the majority of short-term lets across London are in central London
2) LLDC has a very high portion of institutionally managed rental stock, like Get Living London’s East Village
3) access to good quality mid-market hotel accommodation.

GLA funding in LLDC

Tom Copley: Could you provide the total amount of grant funding given by the GLA towards affordable housing in the LLDC, and the total number of units started, broken down by tenure, in each of the past five years?

Sir Peter Hendy CBE, Chair of the LLDC: GLA Housing and Land only record grant funding on a borough level, so it is not possible to determine grant allocations within the LLDC area.

Manhattan Loft Gardens

Tom Copley: How much money did LLDC receive in total through the Section 106 agreement for the “Manhattan Loft Gardens” scheme, and what was the on-site and off-site affordable housing contribution? Could you confirm also that the scheme is on land owned by the Department for Transport?

Sir Peter Hendy CBE, Chair of the LLDC: For this scheme, an off-site affordable housing payment is required that totals £1 million (indexed) and split into two payments. The first payment of £442,020 has been received, while the second payment of £600,000 (indexed) is likely to become due in the near future, once occupation of 125 residential units has been reached. Both Manhattan Loft Gardens and London and Continental Railways (owned by the Department of Transport) are signatories to the S106 Agreement.

Planning to Build Out

Nicky Gavron: What is the average time between a scheme being given planning permission by the LLDC and it being completed?

Sir Peter Hendy CBE, Chair of the LLDC: Information included within LLDC’s recently published Housing Delivery Test Action Plan shows that within the area the average time between permission and completion varies by the scale of the scheme, with it taking on average 1 year for small sites (below 10 units), 2.5 years for schemes up to 300 units, and nearly 4 years for schemes that are delivering over 300 units.

Neighbourhood Planning

Nicky Gavron: What support does the LLDC give to Neighbourhood Planning in general, and specifically to the Greater Carpenters Neighbourhood Forum?

Sir Peter Hendy CBE, Chair of the LLDC: There is one designated Neighbourhood Forum within the London Legacy Development Corporation area which is the Greater Carpenters Neighbourhood Forum. To date officers have attended their forum meetings when requested, offered advice with regard to the preparation of the recently submitted Neighbourhood Plan and have commissioned LLDC’s Planning Policy and Decisions Team retained consultants to prepare a Strategic Environmental Assessment Screening Opinion. With this neighbourhood plan having now been submitted, the LLDC has undertaken formal consultation and arrangements will now be made to appoint an Examiner to undertake the required Examination of the Plan.

Apprenticeships

Fiona Twycross: Can you provide an update on progress against your target on employing apprentices within the LLDC?

Sir Peter Hendy CBE, Chair of the LLDC: LLDC has a minimum park-wide planning target – set by the Planning Policy and Decisions Team in consultation with the boroughs - of 3 per cent for apprentices as part of the workforce in both construction and end-use.
Over the past 12 months, the LLDC has exceeded its park-wide target, achieving 4 per cent for both construction and end-use apprentices.

Apprentices at LLDC

Fiona Twycross: How many apprentices were started in the LLDC? Can you break this down by year since 2012 and by sector?

Sir Peter Hendy CBE, Chair of the LLDC: Internal: See attachment.
External:
The table below provides a breakdown of all the apprentice opportunities created through LLDC interventions since 2012. Construction includes all construction contractor apprentices including those based in site office roles such as Assistant Site Managers and Business Admin roles.
End use apprentices include all roles based with our Venue Operators, Estates and Facilities Management contractors and roles based with our tenants such as digital apprentices based with BT Sport at Here East.
Apprentice opportunities created
Construction
End Use
Total
2012 - 13
43
0
43
2014 - 15
46
17
63
2015 - 16
49
22
71
2016 - 17
17
47
64
2017 - 18
19
29
48
2018 -19
14
6
20
2019 - 20
10
1
11
Total apprentices to date
198
122
320

London Living Wage at the LLDC (2)

Leonie Cooper: What percentage of employers within the LLDC area pay their employees the London Living Wage?

Sir Peter Hendy CBE, Chair of the LLDC: LLDC doesn’t hold this information. However, through its annual audit, LLDC can confirm that all of its tier 1 employers pay their directly employed workers the London Living Wage.
Through its work on Responsible Procurement, the LLDC is working closely with its sister functional bodies in the GLA family to ensure compliance with the requirements of the new GLA group-wide licence which includes mandating the payment of the LLW throughout the supply chain for all new contracts.